Robert’s Reviews > Gravity’s Rainbow > Status Update

The tragedy of the Mittelwerk rocket engineer: "While he lived, and drew marks on paper, this invisible kingdom had kept on, in the darkness outside ... all this time ... Pökler vomited. He cried some. The walls did not dissolve -- no prison wall ever did, not from tears."

It's becoming clearer and clearer that paranoia is the ultimate form of narcissism -- you're SO important that THEY will stop at nothing to control you.

"what's wrong with dope and women? is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?"

If it's acceptable to talk about this book in terms of heroes and villains, Pointsman is definitely a villain. "Oh but how he'd like someday to give them something *really to scream about*"